The spread of Ebola is
the big news now.
And the news media “hysteria
machine” (not to mention the end-of-the-world crowd on the internet grapevine)
is running full force with scare stories about Ebola’s potential spread -- particularly
since it’s been announced that several American victims of Ebola in West Africa
are going to be evacuated to the U.S. for treatment.
But do we really have
a lot to fear from Ebola here in the U.S.?
I contend we have a lot less to fear from Ebola than we have to
fear from the federal government using the Ebola hysteria to rob us of more of our
freedoms and liberties under the guise of “protecting” us from a largely
manufactured “national health crisis.”
That’s the bad news. The potentially good news is
this: Way back in 2008 the federal
government itself demonstrated the fact that antimicrobial silver is, under
certain conditions which I’ll explain below, extremely effective against Ebola
and other hemorrhagic fever viruses.
In fact, two years ago
I was able to obtain from the U.S. Department of Defense formerly classified documents
they probably now wish they’d never de-classified. These documents explain the positive
results achieved by the DOD when testing antimicrobial silver against these
deadly viruses.
So with all of that
said, here’s my somewhat contrarian view regarding the current Ebola “crisis,”
as well as what I’ve discovered so far about the potential for colloidal
silver’s effectiveness against this deadly virus…
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for TheSilverEdge.com…
How soon we forget how shrewdly the federal government used
the overblown anthrax scare directly after 9-11 to rob us of many of our
precious Constitutional rights.
After the anthrax scare we witnessed the institution of illegal
spying on America citizens, unconstitutional search and seizures, and severely diminished
due process of law.
We also forget how the news media later whipped up the so-called
“Bird flu” hysteria, followed by the “Swine flu” hysteria.
Through these manufactured crises, various departments of
the federal government were able to pass new “guidelines”
and regulations on the detention and quarantine of U.S. citizens
These can now be
used by the federal government to restrict travel at a moment’s notice, arrest
and detain individuals, and even quarantine entire cities during a declared “national
health emergency.”
That’s why I’m extremely skeptical of the current so-called “Ebola
crisis.”
Yes, I understand how virulent and deadly Ebola and other
hemorrhagic fever viruses are.
And yes, I also understand that the federal government is
now said to be bringing Ebola victims to the U.S. for treatment. And I understand what a threat that could
pose should the virus ultimately get loose and go rogue in this country.
Psy-Ops Campaign
But I also understand how psychological operations (psy-ops)
campaigns work, and what the federal government stands to gain from them.
The federal government absolutely loves it whenever they can
whip up enough public hysteria that the resulting public outcry to “protect us”
allows them to step in as “saviors” and implement more laws that violate our
fundamental rights and liberties under the guise of “keeping us safe.”
And folks, this current “Ebola crisis” is indeed a massive psy-ops campaign. In other words, the threat is largely being
manufactured and planted into the minds of the American public, through the federal
government/news media axis.
Real v/s Realistic
That doesn’t mean
the danger from Ebola isn’t real. Quite
the contrary. It’s very real, if you’re
exposed to it.
But what’s your actual likelihood of exposure? It’s virtually nil. Which means while the
threat may be “real,” it’s not very realistic.
Let me explain with an example you can probably relate
to: The deadly, drug-resistant
super-pathogen MRSA is also very real. In fact, it’s just as “real” as Ebola.
But the difference between MRSA and Ebola is that MRSA is a
far more realistic threat to the
population of the U.S. than Ebola.
We know that, because the FDA’s own testing has demonstrated
that 61% of all meat in supermarkets is already
contaminated with the deadly MRSA pathogen (up from 50% only last
year). And independent testing backs
those numbers up.
Largely because of this, some 39,000 Americans now get
infected by the flesh-eating MRSA pathogen every single year, and a full 20%
of those infected end up dying – constituting more deaths annually than those
caused by AIDS.
Now that’s a news
story, right?
After all, you have a proven, deadly, antibiotic-resistant
super-pathogen like MRSA contaminating 61% of all meats in supermarkets. And you buy that meat on a regular basis and
bring it home to your family. Wouldn’t
you want to know about that?
Yet there’s not so much as a peep about it in the mainstream news media. Listen carefully. The only sound you’ll hear on this issue is
crickets.
On the other hand you have a virus like Ebola, which is
largely endemic to West Africa, and which hasn’t caused a single death anywhere in the United States…ever. Nor has there been a single infection in the U.S.
Yet the mainstream news media drumbeat about the so-called “Ebola
threat” is absolutely relentless. And as
a result, people are quite literally going out of their minds with fear over
it.
If you listen carefully, you can almost hear the mainstream news
media and the end-of-the-world internet fear-mongers chanting, Ebo-la…Ebo-la…Ebo-la…Ebo-la…as if they’re actually cheering
it on.
Why the dichotomy?
Why is there zero
fear-mongering over the deadly MRSA super-pathogen, even though it represents
an immediate, dire, realistic and already-proven
threat to the American populace…
…while in direct contrast, there’s incessant fear-mongering over the Ebola virus, which has not so
much as even been detected in this country?
And Now for the Other
Side of the Story
Here’s the reality:
Dealing with the very real threat of MRSA would cost Big
Agriculture billions of dollars a
year in sales.
So if the USDA and the FDA publicly acknowledged the growing
MRSA crisis, people would stop buying meat out of fear, and foreign markets for
our beef, chicken, turkey, lamb, pork and other meat products would also dry up
overnight.
The entire U.S. agriculture industry would crumble. Billions of dollars would be lost.
So while community-acquired MRSA infections are now absolutely
skyrocketing, we don’t hear so much as a squawk about it from the news
media.
Nothing. Zip. Zilch.
Nada. Pitch black silence.
There are no talking heads from the FDA, CDC, WHO, or other
alphabet soup health agencies making appearances on national TV news to warn
the populace about the growing spread of MRSA.
This is spite of the fact that, for example, some
30,000-plus hospitalizations of children
for this deadly disease have taken place over the past few years alone here in
the U.S. (which is double the annual rate
of child MRSA infections since the year 2000).
Why is there no outcry from the health authorities?
It’s because the health and regulatory authorities have weighed
the astonishing number of annual deaths being caused each year in this nation by
MRSA, against the economic havoc that would be caused to the agriculture
industry if they went public with this information each night on the national
news.
And the regulators say, “This is an acceptable loss of life. Let’s keep quiet about it. We’ll save as many MRSA victims as we can. And those who die, die. We can’t risk
destroying one of our nation’s largest industries over this.”
But hyperventilating over Ebola, on the other hand, poses no
serious direct economic risk to anyone.
The feds and their news media lackeys can rile the
population up, scare the living bejabbers out of them, and convince everybody
they’re our saviors if we’ll just let them “protect us” from the threat, which
of course, is largely non-existent.
The Real Question:
What Will Obama Do?
So the real
question is this: How far is the federal
government willing to go with this charade?
Would they, for example, allow a few controlled Ebola
infections to take place in the U.S., as a means of convincing the population
that the so-called “Ebola threat” is “real” so new restrictions to our freedoms
and new laws for detaining people could be implemented?
With the anthrax scare of 2001, the Bird flu scare of 2005,
and the Swine Flu scare of 2009, the powers-that-be accomplished much of their
mission of convincing Americans of the supposed reality of a huge and deadly medical
apocalypse directly on the horizon.
“It’s not a matter of if, but when,” goes the relentless drumbeat from the talking head “medical
experts” (most of them being paid, government shills) who have appeared on the nightly
news for the past decade and a half to assure us our future is bleak.
That’s now embedded in the collective psyche of the entire
nation.
So with the vast majority of Americans now convinced of a
coming medical apocalypse, what next? What exactly do the powers-that-be have in
mind with the latest threat-du-jour
known as Ebola?
I find it quite telling that Obama has already used the so-called Ebola crisis to sign a new amendment to
an executive order that would allow him to mandate the apprehension and
detention of Americans who merely show signs of ‘respiratory illness.’
According to an article
on InfoWars.com:
“Obama’s amendment allows for the detention of Americans who
display, ‘Severe acute respiratory syndromes, which are diseases that are
associated with fever and signs and symptoms of pneumonia or other respiratory
illness, are capable of being transmitted from person to person, and that
either are causing, or have the potential to cause, a pandemic, or, upon
infection, are highly likely to cause mortality or serious morbidity if not
properly controlled’.”
The InfoWars.com article goes on to explain exactly how
ominous this new executive order amendment is:
“Although
Ebola was listed on the original executive order signed by Bush, Obama’s
amendment ensures that Americans who merely show signs of respiratory illness,
with the exception of influenza, can be forcibly detained by medical
authorities.
Although
the quarantining of people suspected of being infected with the Ebola virus
seems like a perfectly logical move, the actual preconditions for this to
happen aren’t restricted to just those suffering from the disease.
As
we highlighted earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has measures in place for dealing with an outbreak of a
communicable disease which allow for the quarantine of “well persons” who “do
not show symptoms” of the disease.
In
addition, under the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, public health
authorities and governors would be given expanded police powers to seize
control of communications devices, public and private property, as well as a
host of other draconian measures in the event of a public health emergency.
When
the legislation was introduced, the Association of American Physicians and
Surgeons warned that it ‘could turn governors into dictators’.”
The $64,000 Question
So why does the government/news media axis downplay a very realistic medical threat like MRSA, with
very real deaths, and very real impacts on literally thousands of
American families every single year, yet relentlessly hype an unrealistic “medical
crisis” like Ebola that’s virtually non-existent in this country?
I don’t ask that question to start arguments or to inspire
conspiracy theories. I ask it only to
bring some semblance of sanity to the
table in regards to the supposed “Ebola crisis” and the panic and mass hysteria
now evolving around it.
At this point, the so-called “Ebola crisis” is a fabricated
one. And the sooner we realize it, the
lower the chances are that the federal government can take further advantage of
it by reducing our freedoms under the guise of “saving” us.
Why So Fearful?
If you absolutely need to be fearful, you’d have far more reason to be fearful of a
deadly MRSA superbug infection striking your household than you would an Ebola
infection.
You can come into contact with the MRSA superbug just about
any day of the week – right now -- especially
when you shop for meat at your local supermarket.
What’s more, with MRSA all you need is a small cut or
scratch on your body for it to go internal, induce sepsis, cause organ failure
and other calamities, giving you a one-in-five chance of living through the infection.
(But thankfully, colloidal silver cures MRSA with relative
ease. See the clinical and anecdotal
evidence presented on the Colloidal
Silver Cures MRSA website, and in my article “Does Colloidal Silver Really Cure MRSA?”)
So your likelihood of coming into contact with the deadly
MRSA pathogen is quite high. But your
likelihood of being anywhere near the vicinity of an Ebola victim is just about
zero.
So please think about it.
My advice is this: If
you’ve got to panic over something, then panic over something that represents a
realistic threat, rather than a sensationalistic threat.
Ebola may be a “real” threat, but it’s not a very realistic threat here in the U.S. At least, not yet.
The true threat at this point is the federal government and the
new regulations being implemented to give the federal government the power to
detain anybody they want, at any time, under the guise of a “national health
crisis.”
Colloidal Silver and
Ebola:
What We Know So Far
Which, finally, brings us to the topic of colloidal silver
and Ebola. Here’s the good news:
Back in 2008, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in
conjunction with several other federal agencies quietly conducted clinical research
into the use of silver nanoparticles against Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever
viruses.
And what they found was astonishing. They discovered that silver nanoparticles
were highly effective against these deadly viruses, including the Ebola virus.
They later presented their findings to federal health
regulators and other national health authorities. But it was all kept top secret. The presentation was called “Silver
Nanoparticles Neutralize Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses.”
And the gist of the presentation was that silver
nanoparticles displayed “powerful neutralizing effects against hemorrhagic
fever viruses,” including Arenavirus and Filovirus (i.e., Ebola).
This clinical presentation was conducted under the auspices
of the DOD’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the U.S. Strategic
Command (USSTRATCOM) Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction.
And the presentation was given by researchers from the
Applied Biotechnology Branch, 711th Human Performance Wing of the Air Force
Research Laboratory.
In other words, those are the big guns, folks! Which is to say, those are the very people
responsible for keeping this nation safe from outside threats like
bioterrorism.
That clinical presentation, made to federal regulators and
national health authorities, was later summarized in a printed document, de-classified,
and cleared for public release.
But there was no news media hoopla surrounding the release
of this information. Not a peep.
And to this very day, to my knowledge, there still hasn’t
been a single report in the mainstream news media on the release of this
important information, in spite of the fact that Department of Defense
researchers found antimicrobial silver to be profoundly effective against Ebola
and other hemorrhagic fever viruses, under certain circumstances which we’ll
discuss below.
Before we get into the results of this research, as
documented in the published version of the DOD presentation, it’s important to
note that one of the main tasks of the DOD’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency is
to “anticipate and mitigate future threats long before they have a chance to
harm the United States and our allies.”
In other words, the researchers were specifically looking
for ways to stop Ebola or other hemorrhagic fever viruses from damaging our
national security.
And the results they found when using silver nanoparticles for
that precise purpose were strikingly positive -- enough so to warrant not just
the presentation to health and regulatory authorities, but its later
publication and public release.
What Researchers
Discovered
The researchers tested silver nanoparticles of several
different sizes and concentrations on infected cells in vitro (meaning, in the test tube).
And they concluded that silver nanoparticles were able to neutralize
hemorrhagic fever viruses inside the cells by “decreasing S segment gene
expression and concomitantly decreasing progeny virus production.”
Translation: Silver stops
the Ebola virus and related hemorrhagic fever viruses from replicating inside
the cells. And when there’s no viral replication
inside the cells, there’s no spread of infection!
The researchers had discovered the holy grail Ebola
treatments. But they also discovered
that neutralization of the virus by silver occurs during the early phases of viral replication.
Therefore, they pointed out that for antimicrobial silver to
be effective against Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever viruses, the treatment
would have to be administered PRIOR to viral infection or at least within the first few hours after initial
exposure to the virus.
In other words, for antimicrobial silver to be effective,
an exposed person would need to have already
been taking it, or at the very least would have to start taking it within a
few short hours of exposure to an infected individual.
Another interesting thing the researchers discovered is that
while an enzymatic protein called Cathepsin B has been shown to play an
essential role in Ebola virus replication, silver nanoparticles work to decrease
cathepsin activity, thus further limiting viral replication in the cell and
subsequent spread of the virus to other cells.
And by far the most interesting thing the researchers
discovered (at least, to me) is that only very low concentrations of silver nanoparticles were necessary to
prevent replication of the virus.
Indeed, low concentrations of 10 ppm nanosilver appears to
have worked better than higher concentrations of 25 ppm or 50 ppm nanosilver. This means there’s no need for overly high
silver concentrations.
What’s more, the smallest silver particles tested by the
researchers worked far better than the larger silver particles tested.
This demonstrates once more that the use of very small silver particles is far more
important than the “ppm” or concentration of the colloidal silver solution one
is using.
Simply put, smaller silver particles penetrate cells and
tissues easier, and are therefore better able to get to the point of infection
before the virus spreads.
Here's
a
link to the printed version of the DOD clinical presentation, so you can scroll
through it and read it for yourself. It’s technical. But if you take your time it’s relatively
understandable.
Thinking Out Loud:
Here’s What I’d Do in
Case of Ebola
People have written to ask me, “Steve, how much colloidal
silver would you have to take in order to protect yourself from an Ebola
infection?”
And of course, the answer is, no one knows for sure. As I mentioned, the DOD research discussed
above was in vitro (i.e., laboratory
test tube) research.
And while it demonstrated that very small particles of
silver at surprisingly low concentrations could stop the Ebola virus in
infected cells from replicating and spreading, it in no way gives us so much as
a clue as to how much colloidal silver a living
human being would have to take in order to achieve the same results.
Now I know that’s probably not what you want to hear. But just as I refuse to join in with all of
the doom-and-gloom hype about the supposed coming worldwide Ebola apocalypse, in
like manner I also refuse to join in with those making blanket statements that
colloidal silver is the sure-fire “cure” for Ebola.
Under real-life conditions, it might, or might not prove to be effective.
And if colloidal silver did
prove to be effective, the research seems to indicate it would depend upon
getting the right dose of very small silver particles into your body, early
enough in the infective process to stop viral replication.
Indeed, it appears that to have the very best chance of protection, utilizing
colloidal silver in small amounts on a daily basis would be the way to go.
In other words, based on the DOD study, daily prophylactic
dosing with colloidal silver before
exposure to the Ebola virus would appear to provide better protection than
dosing after exposure.
This is just one reason why I continue to take my usual
one-ounce per day dosage of colloidal silver, which is just about right for my
body weight.
(See “How
Much Colloidal Silver Can You Take Safely Each Day?” to learn the simple
formula for determining your safe daily colloidal silver dosage, based on your
body weight and the ppm of the colloidal silver solution you’re using.)
But again, since there’s been no in vivo testing that we know of (i.e., no testing of colloidal
silver usage in a real-life human being infected with Ebola) there’s simply no
way to know for an absolute certainty if regular oral use of colloidal silver
would provide an adequate amount of protection upon exposure to the Ebola
virus.
Nebulizing Colloidal
Silver
Some people have pointed out that in the event of exposure
to the Ebola virus, immediately nebulizing with colloidal silver (i.e.,
inhaling an atomized mist of colloidal silver into the lungs, using a device
called a medical nebulizer) would be a potentially effective way to get
colloidal silver into the bloodstream, cells and tissues of the human body
quickly and effectively.
And that’s a very
good possibility. Why? Because just about anything inhaled into the
lungs has a far better chance of making it into the bloodstream, cells and
tissues of the body faster than oral ingestion.
Indeed, were I to suspect that I’d just been exposed to a
person infected with Ebola, probably the first
thing I’d do would be to high-tail it back home, break out my medical nebulizer,
fill the little basin with very small particle size colloidal silver of 10 ppm
concentration, turn the machine on and inhale the colloidal silver mist into my
lungs for five or six minutes.
And I’d probably repeat the process every few hours for up
to five or six times.
(See “Using Colloidal
Silver With a Nebulizer” to learn what the experts say about nebulizing
colloidal silver, including a brief video demonstration of how easy it is to use
a medical nebulizer.)
After that, if the colloidal silver didn’t work, it would be
too late anyway, as the viral replication kicks into high gear after several
hours, and antimicrobial silver only works during the first few hours according
to the DOD report.
Now all of that is pure layman’s speculation on my part in
terms of what might work. I'm just talking off the top of my head. I'm no doctor. And I'm not "prescribing" for anyone
else, of course.
After all, nobody’s ever
had to do this before. So use of oral
doses of colloidal silver for Ebola is an unknown factor in terms of knowing
how much to use, how to use it effectively, and when to use it.
But based on the DOD research, it would seem to me that
the key would be quick action utilizing 10 ppm colloidal silver with a very
small particle size, and getting it into the cells and tissues of the body as
quickly as possible.
Even more preferable, the research suggests, would be to
take a small amount of colloidal silver prophylactically (i.e., before the
fact), on a daily basis, so it’s already in the body in the event of exposure
to Ebola.
One More Interesting
Thought
My good friend Skip W. wrote to say that if he were in an
area where Ebola virus outbreaks were taking place, one thing he’d do is wear a
protective face mask any time he had to go out into the public, such as to the
supermarket or mall.
I believe he’s talking about the white surgical face masks, for
example, like those you see doctors wearing in the surgical ward. These light-weight surgical masks are often
available on various survivalist-oriented or “prepper” websites.
In fact, I just now went to Amazon.com, and using their
search engine I typed in the search terms “surgical face mask” and
“antimicrobial face mask.” Those two
search terms brought up an amazing array of such masks, at fairly reasonable
prices.
Skip also pointed out that he’d saturate the mask on both
sides with a fine mist of colloidal silver and allow it to air dry before
putting it on to go out into the public.
And he said he’d also lightly spray his hands and face with
colloidal silver at the same time, and allow it to air dry, as well.
Skip explained “I'm asthmatic, and I've done this before as
a precautionary measure when going out into the public during flu outbreaks,
for example. I may look a bit strange but I seldom ever get the flu.”
Obviously, Skip is a forward thinker. And it’s probably not a bad idea to take such
precautions should the situation ever truly warrant it. At this point in time, however, it does
not.
In Conclusion
To sum up, at this point in time (August 2014) in the United
States the so-called “Ebola crisis” is the modern-day equivalent of
Shakespeare’s “Much ado about nothing.”
While Ebola is a very real danger should one become exposed
to the disease, the threat of exposure is not yet very realistic. In fact, the
threat is pretty much nil here in the
U.S. where all of the unnecessary panic is nevertheless taking place.
The only thing this manufactured panic will serve at this
point is the very real threat of the federal government stepping in and using
the panic to institute even greater restrictions on our fundamental freedoms
and liberties.
As Obama’s old mentor Rahm Emanuel so famously stated, “Never
let a good crisis go to waste.” The
federal government is certainly following that advice.
Compared to the very
realistic threat of acquiring a superbug infection such as MRSA, the threat of
Ebola pales in comparison.
Nevertheless, should Ebola ever become an actual threat in
this country the DOD report described above gives us some very good hope that
colloidal silver could be a bona-fide first-line of defense if used quickly
enough at 10 ppm concentration, and in very small particle size.
·
To learn more about why it’s so important to
utilize the smallest colloidal silver particles possible for maximum
effectiveness, rather than high concentrations of colloidal silver, see the
article “Why Higher PPM Is Not
Always Better.”
·
To learn how to make your own high-quality
colloidal silver, quickly and easily, with the smallest silver particles
possible, for less than 36 cents a quart,
see the article “How
the World’s #1 Best-Selling Colloidal Silver Generator Compares to All the Rest.”
Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great article on
colloidal silver….
Yours for the safe, sane and responsible
use of colloidal silver,
Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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